After a number of outings, similar to the basketball trip, Japes and Oh were accused of abusing the hotels trade policy. To start with, there was no trade policy and all the trades or exchanges that Japes and Oh had ever done were approved and endorsed by Bootlick. An unhappy new server made the complaint stating that the trades benefited only a few and set a poor example for the rest. Jersey and Oh had planned a much smaller outing to go see a comedy show in the city. One of the reasons for the outing was to console Rupee, the limousine driver, who had lost his son to cancer. Rupee would drive the gang in to the city and as a result of an overnight room trade the ten managers …show more content…
The ramifications of this run-of-the-mill outing would forever change the hotel's culture and became known as “The Spanish Inquisition”.
Japes, Oh, and Bubblehead were all summoned to the woodshed for a meeting with Bootlick and Snub-nose. A night auditor had written to the owners making outrageous accusations in particular stating what Oh, months earlier, had said about screwing a guest's wife and more recently the outing to the comedy show. Bubblehead was at the meeting and for some reason he was supporting the audit servers accusations in a hopes to get Oh and Japes fired. Bootlick, in his usual fashion, denied any knowledge of the outing and any trades involved. This was a flat out lie. Japes, although he did not plan the outing, took responsibility of what transpired emphatically stating that nothing was done without approval. The hotel periodically would comp guest rooms, and more specifically Japes had full authority to do so at his own discretion. He reiterated that all the trades the movie theater in particular benefited everyone in the hotel. The particular outing in question was to a comedy show for mature audiences, which would have been inappropriate for the ladies. All interested